What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 878

Gaho (1)

Eventually, the sun climbed high in the eastern sky.

Gain wore an expression more serious than ever before.

-Swish!

Prince Yeser, who had been quietly counting the seconds, removed the poison needle from Anpeta’s fingertip.

This was Gain’s secret weapon, obtained from his counterpart in the Garden World Line. Today, however, it was used to calm the old woman’s mind and temporarily alleviate her madness. He’d learned of its use in this specific situation thanks to the Prince, of course.

From a distance, Jebi’s shaky breath could be heard.

“…Grandma, do you understand me?”

In any case, the alchemist needed to be in a state where she could comprehend Gain’s story.

Really, truly.

Because this might be a matter of life and death for someone who had nothing to do with the Palace Lord.

-Krrrrrr…

Meanwhile, Demi and Peri hopped around, ‘Kkia, Kkiho’-ing to indicate the exact location, and the spirit of Iran carefully lifted the remains of the Gigolt family buried in the sand to the surface.

While Jibril guarded the children, Martier and Karme neatly arranged the bones and prepared for cremation.

Count Ralph Gigolt himself had a deep longing for Unio, and his descendants also held a special affection for the desert, so they decided to hold the funeral in the way they would have wanted.

Seeing them buried together with their grave goods, without a single coffin, it was clear they had all passed away without proper rites.

“Your vessel…”

One could roughly guess the kind of life the clan, fugitives branded as traitors, had lived in the city.

Anpeta, the surviving family member, decisively agreed, and the funeral preparations proceeded without a hitch.

“There’s the power of the Sacred Relic inside it. Not much, but it’s definitely there.”

Gain spoke clearly, sitting face to face with Anpeta.

The old woman scratched at the air with her ringed fingers, as if counting something.

“Sacred Relic… So, if it’s the power of the Sacred Relic… oh my. You mean Aether [a mystical energy or essence].”

“Yes. Your ancestor must have drunk a sip of holy water from the Sacred Relic, and it hasn’t disappeared to this day. To his daughter, to his daughter’s daughter, and to you… It’s been passed down through the generations.”

“Ah-ha. Aha.”

Anpeta responded with slow but clear pronunciation. Gain lowered his head and observed her.

“Do you understand? The ‘truth’ you’ve been looking for so desperately. From ancient times, it’s said that when very powerful Aether gathers in one place, amazing things happen.”

“Ah, yes. And if desperate feelings are attached to it, miraculous phenomena occur.”

“But you have that power. The power to turn sand into gold!”

“…”

The old woman stared at him with a blank face for a moment.

Gain took off Anpeta’s crumpled hat, shook off the sand, and put it back on her head.

It wasn’t because he suddenly felt fond of the old woman, who had done many wrong things to the Gigolt residents while alive.

It’s just…

“Because of that power, you can’t leave your family’s side.”

“…”

Just. He was just worried for no reason.

“You’re living day by day, being called a madman by everyone in the village, doing truly mad things. Trying to meet your family again somehow.”

“…”

“You probably never knew it, but you’re in a lot of pain right now. You’ve been sick since you were born.”

“…”

“Have you ever heard of kidney disease? It’s not a common disease. It develops at a very young age, and not many children survive to adulthood.”

“…Oh…”

The old woman made a sound like a deflated balloon.

Cedric, who was standing next to Gain, turned to look at her for a moment.

The old gaze slowly fell onto the sand.

“Kidney disease. Kidney disease… I see.”

“You used to sleep a lot when you were young, right? Like seventeen or eighteen hours a day?”

“Oh my, how did you know that…?”

“That’s one of the typical symptoms of kidney disease. I’m not an expert, though. Have you ever eaten sun halo grass?”

The old woman frowned as if she had never heard the word ‘sun halo grass’ itself, and then shook her head.

It seemed that even in the memories that had been broken and flown away over the long years, there were certain pieces that remained.

Just as the Moon Hunt party never forgot the absence of ‘Jeong Yeseo’.

Gain extended his index finger and pointed to the old woman’s heart.

“…If it weren’t for that power, you wouldn’t be sick. You would have lived a normal life as an ordinary person with a slightly thicker vessel [referring to her capacity to hold Aether].”

“Normal…”

“Lord Jeistrah said that even someone who wasn’t a priest wouldn’t have been able to understand the power of the Sacred Relic. So maybe there wouldn’t have been any madness either.”

“…”

“You wouldn’t have lived long enough to see all the people you cherish pass away.”

“…”

“You might have received a different, wonderful name instead of the terrible name ‘Anpeta’. I don’t want to speak ill of other people’s names, but that’s the reality.”

What kind of damn adult came up with the idea of passing on the power of the Sacred Relic to a child and even naming the child ‘Sacred Relic’?

Even giving the same spelling to the mother… Okay, damn it. Never mind.

“…If you want, I’ll take all that power out of you here.”

Gain declared in a heavy voice.

“…Such…”

Then, the old woman stared at her chest for a long time, and then faced Gain with a bewildered expression.

He had a bad feeling.

He thought he had managed to inject reason and make her understand the current situation, but now it seemed that he wouldn’t be able to persuade the most important person…

Alright, let’s lay it all out.

“Of course, I can’t say it won’t hurt at all. The process might be incredibly painful and difficult. You might gasp for breath.”

Of course, this is how it should be. The Palace Lord would have said this first!

“But we want to use the power that’s pooled inside your vessel, even if there are those side effects. No, we have to use it! That’s why we’re trying to persuade you now! Because that’s the only option left for us.”

“…”

“Yes, I’ll be honest. Maybe you’ll die in the process of us taking the power inside your body. To be exact, no one knows what kind of result this will bring. No one in history has ever tried such a thing! We’re going to gather all the power of the Divine Objects and open the gate to another dimension. And we’re going to get back the lost Moon and our teacher. No matter what.”

“…”

“Yeah, you have a scary look on your face. Of course. If I were you, I would have already run away somewhere—”

“Can I die?”

In an instant, he was breathless. Gain and Cedric looked at the old woman at the same time.

Her eyeballs were bulging out as if they would pop.

“Can I really die…? Can I meet my family?”

What filled Anpeta’s face was by no means fear.

It was not fear that made her wrinkles tremble.

The Holy Knights belatedly realized her emotions.

“Such… Such a miraculous thing…”

“…”

“Good heavens…”

It was joy.

It was a heart swelling like a tray—making her take off her hat herself, wash her face with her dry hands, clench and unclench her trembling fingers, smile innocently like a child, and make an expression full of anticipation.

“Not bringing the dead back to life, but me, this Anpeta, departing to the side of the Lord…”

“…Don’t be so sure. We’ll never let you die. You committed sins in Gigolt Village, so you have to live and pay for them. I’m just saying the worst-case scenario.”

“Then, then my mother too! Ah, I actually don’t remember my mother. I heard she passed away when I was very young, at the age of six. But there’s a way to meet my mother again…!”

Ignoring Gain’s words, the old woman continued to ramble on.

The golden light that had seemed to have subsided until just now flickered again beyond her pupils.

A radiance filled with joy.

‘I wish you good luck.’

Suddenly, Modest Bakari’s voice awakened them from the depths of their memories.

‘Never miss the golden light when it appears.’

“…”

Perhaps, was this what he meant? Cedric and Gain exchanged glances for a moment. It was then.

“…It seems the cremation preparations are complete.”

The Prince, glancing at Martier, announced the news in a gentle voice.

Gain turned to look at Anpeta with a determined look. Their clear gazes met.

“…I too… I too am ready to explore the truth. Yes, I am.”

“…”

If so, then all preparations are complete.

The Cardinal rose from his seat, taking out his white whip.

Cedric also moved, placing his hand on his sword hilt.

The Prince once again checked Anpeta’s pulse and diagnosed that she was completely normal.

“…”

The last sky that her purple eyes looked up at had a gray shadow of the moon hanging in it.

As vividly as if it would remain in that place forever.

May 22nd, lunchtime.

I was hastily eating rice noodles with Herrit’s father near the company.

To be exact, I had been eating without any problems until about thirty seconds ago.

“So…”

You’re saying that my friends are temporarily using a sick grandmother’s vessel as a Sacred Relic, mobilizing the Divine Objects of the four attributes to open a gate and come to see me?

“…Am I understanding correctly?”

“Yes.”

The Cardinal replied in a refreshing voice.

I briefly put down my chopsticks and received the tablet PC with our story written on it.

I had become a steel stomach that was confident in digesting even in the most difficult situations, but today I didn’t think I could get the noodles down my throat.

Most of the events that I didn’t know well or didn’t remember had already been organized and written by Sir John.

I was too busy clicking, clicking, clicking like crazy and putting up reserved posts, so I didn’t have time to carefully read the volume of over eight hundred chapters…

“How many chapters did I upload until yesterday?”

“You serialized up to chapter 876. It was the first day you didn’t upload a hundred and twenty chapters at once.”

“And the remaining amount is…”

“You’ll only be able to upload one or two episodes this evening.”

He stretched out his finger and scrolled down the screen.

“Heok…”

Oh my, our readers, I saw the situation where the scroll of the square file ‘almost’ touched the bottom for the first time!

“Oh my gosh, because of this… The execution of my friends’ plan is imminent, so you came to the company in person, Sir.”

“Because you never know what might happen before you leave work.”

The man said with a meaningful smile. I covered my mouth with a napkin and nodded.

“Yes, today is really…”

It’s a day when something might happen.